This was a fun
movie. The special effects were super-cool but the overall
story was not very exciting. The whole thing seemed rushed, as if much of
the story ended up on the floor of the editing room. Here's what
happens: Guy Pearce (last seen in the outstanding Memento)
plays Alexander. Alexander's fiancÚ is killed in a mugging moments after
he proposes to her. For the next 4 years he abandons everything in his
life to create a time machine. We don't get to see any of the testing or
process behind it's creation. However, based on what I've learned from
movies, if you get enough stuff spinning you will eventually be able to move
through time. So he goes back in time to prevent the death of his
girlfriend. Once in the past, he tries and fails to prevent her death a
second time. This leads him on a fast forward trip through time as
he searches for the answer to why he cannot alter the past.

At one point, Alexander stops
during a period in history where human's are colonizing the moon.
During construction demolitions the moon is blow out of orbit and into pieces
which literally pummel the planet back into the stone age. Here he meets
another cute girl who he soon learns is basically just food for the Morlocks (a
second race that evolves about 700 years after the moon falls?) So he
begins his attempt to rescue her from the dinner table.

By this point in the movie you
have discovered that this is one of the most selfish hero's you have ever seen
in a film. He knows that the moon will destroy almost everyone and
everything on the planet and he has a time machine! Instead of going back
and stopping Armageddon, he continues on his little quest to save his new
girlfriend and find out why he couldn't save his last
girlfriend.

I won't tell you much more about
what happens because you might want to watch it someday. I will say that
the special effects were excellent! The time lapse sequences were really
cool! The scary cannibal Morlock were neat too (and probably the only
reason this film wasn't rated G.)

Over all the special effects more
than made up for the story not being very strong. It was a fun movie to
watch. Kinda like the Planet of the Apes remake.